adroit

«adroit» in Mova's school dictionary: Very skilful and clever with the hands or body — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (adroit, more adroit, most adroit)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very skilful and clever with the hands or body. tree →

2) Clever and quick at dealing with people or difficult situations. tree →

sense in the lessons

A book and exam word; in stories it praises a nimble thief, a juggler or a smooth talker. Phrases: «adroit at», «an adroit move», «adroit handling».

examples

• The juggler was adroit with five balls. tree →
• She gave an adroit answer to the tricky question. tree →
• The cat made an adroit leap onto the fence. tree →
• He is adroit at fixing bikes. tree →
• The captain's adroit steering saved the boat. tree →
• With adroit fingers she tied the knot. tree →
• Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony. tree →

note

Adverb: adroitly. Opposite: clumsy, maladroit. Said «a-DROYT».

In the corpora

• English borrowed gauche to mean clumsy and adroit (from à droit) to mean skilful.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «adroit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.